Wind leads at 21.7 GW but coal and gas provide 18 GW of thermal backup in a dark, zero-solar overnight hour.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 37%
Wind offshore 11%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 17%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 15%
60%
Renewable share
21.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
45.2 GW
Total generation
-1.5 GW
Net import
98.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.5°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
264
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 16.8 GW dominates the right half of the composition as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling central German farmland, blades turning steadily in moderate wind; wind offshore 4.9 GW appears in the far right distance as a cluster of turbines on a dark horizon suggesting the North Sea. Brown coal 6.6 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers trailing thick white steam plumes into the black sky. Natural gas 7.6 GW fills the centre-left as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks venting heat shimmer. Hard coal 3.8 GW sits behind the gas plant as a smaller station with a single large chimney and conveyor belt infrastructure. Biomass 4.2 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial facility with a rectangular stack and wood-chip storage dome, warmly lit from within. Hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a small concrete dam and powerhouse nestled in a valley at the painting's lower centre. Time is 1:00 AM — the sky is completely black, no twilight, no sky glow, a dense 100% overcast hiding all stars and moon, creating an oppressive ceiling of darkness reflecting the high electricity price. The only light comes from sodium-orange streetlamps along a country road, the amber and white industrial lighting of the power stations, glowing windows in control buildings, and red aviation warning lights atop turbine nacelles and smokestacks. Temperature is 5.5°C in mid-April: the sparse vegetation is early spring green but muted in darkness, patches of dew glisten on bare fields, breath-like mist clings to low ground. The atmosphere is heavy, humid, claustrophobic — an oppressive industrial night. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark palette of Prussian blues, lamp blacks, warm ochres, and furnace oranges — visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth receding into murky distance. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, cooling tower parabolic curves, CCGT exhaust geometry. No text, no labels.